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Show mm OF SOCIETY MUCH DISSIPATED Woman Physician of Fashionable Fashion-able and Exclusive Club Speaks Plainly. By Leased Wire to The Tribune. NEW YORK, July 30. The Colony club, tho wealthiest and most exclusive woman's club In America, is in the throes of internal strife for tho "second time In a year over revelations of drinking and cigarette smoking by its members. Dr. JSugenla Hancock, for six years physician at the Hotel Martha Washington Washing-ton and now the regular attendant on the bulk of the members of tho Colony club, has laid herself open to ostracism from fashionable patronage. Dr. Hancock, In an Interview, said that the women of Now York wero drinking and smoking themselves Into Insane asylums asy-lums and living such unhealthy lives that their children were destined to become degenerates beforo they wero born. The woman physician, warming to her subject, said; Too Mucb- Smoking. "All of the fnshlonablo womon that I know havo the cigarette habit. College girls 'are taking up cigarettes. Business women arc coming to smoke. Of courso, there Is a well known fact that there have been many Inveterate smokors among the society women for years. At tho Colony club, cigarettes aro regularly passed around after meals. "The foolish society woman thinks she Is a good sport when she becomes "half intoxicated and smoken cigarettes, so she learns to drink whisky, beer and cocktails. Her nervous condition becomes shattered and she resorts to drugs, Poor, silly creatures! They do not even respect the Sabbath, but continue their dinners and their dances, thus breaking tho great American tradition of tho Sabbath's sanctity' The board of governors, who wero rolled once before on account of exposures regarding re-garding the club, will consider Dr. Hancock's Han-cock's case at their next mooting. From her friendship with many members of the club, she has corao to bo looked upon as the Colony club doctor. |